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Earlier today, my Wii was working just fine. I go to play a backup of a game and it firstly errors me in Backup Gamma 0.3 with Error 324. So I looked that up, reinstalled the cIOS.

Now my games load (sometimes) and whenever they boot up, the drive starts clicking persistently, failing to load and then eventually erroring out.

Any help would be appreciated. I've tried uninstalling DVDx, reinstalling cIOS's, reinstalling Backup Launcher, cleaning the disc, turning the Wii on all of its sides..

Firmware: 3.3u

Doesn't error 324 also cover bad media, could it be that your discs if backups have been damaged in anyway? that would cause the drive to have problems and eventually error out. Or in the worse case it is the drive itself that is giving up. If you can access another Wii, get a disc that works on that and try it on yours, se what happens. Try both original and backup.

try burning on another type of media .. i have had great success with Sony and Maxell. It is possible it is the wii drive itself. No worries most mod shops sell new drives, and they are available on Ebay.

I have about 25 backups and they all worked without any problems whatsoever until randomly they just stopped, along with originals as well. At first, it would boot up some games, load very slowly, then die.. and now nothing works at all.

Sorry to say it but your drive is roasted toasted and burnt to a crisp. Bette start looking into buying a new optical drive for your wii, or invest in a FlatMii or USB loader and start loading from USB.. how old is this wii and how much usage have you gotten out of it?

Thanks.. I will attempt to clean the lens tomorrow afternoon. I suppose it isn't any harder than cleaning a PS2 lens. No, I'm not very great at DIY stuff. I initially opened it years ago to install a modchip but I got cold feet because I'd never soldered before --